Snow Dough Recipe for Winter Sensory Play!

Make some gloriously glittery snow dough for some wondrous sensory play this winter!

Do you love cloud dough already? Me too! It’s so soft and silky and yet can be moulded loosely into shapes. Best of all, it can be made form just 2 ingredients! So now that it’s winter time I wanted to have a go at making some SNOW dough instead, based on the same simple recipe. And it’s SO easy, bright white and even crunches between your fingers like snow! We experimented and it worked!Recipe for Snow Dough:

[You can also use baby oil, which makes it smell and feel even nicer, but do NOT use with under 3s or any child who may put it in their mouth as it is dangerous if ingested. We stick to vegetable oil just incase!]

This recipe does not create a huge amount of snow dough, just enough to cover the base of a washing up bowl by about 2 inches. If you want more for a larger scale sensory tub, then increase the quantities accordingly.

The girls made this nearly independently as it is so easy to do. Just mix the ingredients together with a spoon until combined, then use fingers to rub the oil right into the flour until its completely integrated. It should feel smooth, slightly damp and will take a form if moulded.

They added their toy polar bears and some large chalk rocks and used their imaginations to create a fantastic Arctic small world scene. We had a go at forming some snow balls in our hands and the dough took the shape well. We piled them up then they threw them at the bears for a game of snow ball fights!

Tip:This can get messy if played indoors, so use a large drop cloth or old table cloth under the tub to make cleaning up easier!

What they are learning as they play:Sensory: exploring through sensory investigation, learning new descriptive languageLiteracy: story telling, vocabulary developmentScience/ Knowledge & Understanding of the World: combining materials, recipes, geography and habitatsCreativity: imaginative play, forming sculpturesMaths: counting out measurements

Just found this today via Pinterest… I have a sister-in-law with a special needs son (loves sensory play) who moved to Arizona. He misses the snow like crazy! I’m thinking of whipping up a batch and mailing it. Will it hold up, do you think?

We just made this with fantastic results!! We used a big blue tray and mixed blue and silver glitter, we found some pinecones and the kids spent ages crumbling the snow over them after a long lovely play doing other things. Absolutely glorious to play with!

Take care. We tried this at our group in a village hall. It went every where leaving greasy footprints all over the floor. It builds up on children’s shoes and gets very slippery. I will try it again at home where I have more control on the children and the snow dough.

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